Rakudo Star Release 2014.08

2014-08-30

A useful, usable, "early adopter" distribution of Perl 6

On behalf of the Rakudo and Perl 6 development teams, I'm happy to
announce the August 2014 release of "Rakudo Star", a useful and usable
distribution of Perl 6. The tarball for the August 2014 release is
available from http://rakudo.org/downloads/star/. A Windows .MSI
version of Rakudo star will usually appear in the downloads area
shortly after the tarball release.

This Rakudo Star release comes with support for the MoarVM
backend (all module tests pass on supported platforms) along with
experimental support for the JVM backend (some module tests fail).
One shipped module is known to fail on Parrot (JSON::RPC).

In the Perl 6 world, we make a distinction between the language
("Perl 6") and specific implementations of the language such as
"Rakudo Perl". This Star release includes release 2014.08 of the
Rakudo Perl 6 compiler, version 6.7.0 of the Parrot VirtualMachine, version 2014.08 of MoarVM, plus various modules,
documentation, and other resources collected from the Perl 6
community.

In many places we've tried to make Rakudo smart enough to inform the
programmer that a given feature isn't implemented, but there are many
that we've missed. Bug reports about missing and broken features are
welcomed at rakudobug@perl.org.

See http://perl6.org/ for links to much more information about
Perl 6, including documentation, example code, tutorials, reference
materials, specification documents, and other supporting resources. A
draft of a Perl 6 book is available as docs/UsingPerl6-draft.pdf in
the release tarball.